Matthew Harris Ornstein Memorial Foundation Inc

As its 2nd project, in 2017 MHOMF decided to produce a movie about the remarkable efforts of judge stephen leifman of miami-dade county, Florida to decriminalize treatment of those with serious mental illness and to serve as a template for other locales wanting to replicate the judge's work. After 3 years of effort with found object films, "the definition of insanity" opened at the Miami film festival in march 2020 and in april, aired on pbs to a large national audience. Though in-person screenings had to be cancelled due to covid, MHOMF has been able to conduct many remote showings followed by panels with judge leifman, others on his team and often local officials or representatives of sponsoring groups. In this way, MHOMF has reached large and diverse audiences and generated thoughtful discussion on timely issues such as police and criminal justice reform, inequities in our penal system and escalating rates of mental illness. MHOMF continues to receive regular requests for showings.